£45.99
This book with its felicitous title brings together with great skill and sensitivity a large amount of current historical scholarship on the trade and civilization of the Indian Ocean during the Islamic centuries.
It will be welcomed by both students and teachers as a fine introduction to a complex subject.
Religion and Trade
Monsoon Islam
Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity
Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World
Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures, and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean
Arab Seafaring
Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean
How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World
Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves
Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage Management on the Historic and Arabian Trade Routes
Trade and Empire in Muscat and Zanzibar
Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World